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     Section 5 
     
    
   
   
    
     PRINCE OF WALES COLLEGE 
     
     FOURTH YEAR 
     
    
   
   
    
     After teaching for a total of nine years, seven years 
     
     in the local schools of Prince Edward Island and two years 
     
     teaching high school and first year university, Nova Scotia; 
     
     and my years in the Air Force as a Navigator and a tour 
     
     of operations over Germany; as well as a year in Technical 
     
     school, Halifax; trained as a machine fitter; and worked 
     
     in Trenton, Nova Scotia, at my new trade, I returned to 
     
     Prince of Wales College to resume study, a pre-medical 
     
     course from a very poor standing in third year, some 13 
     
     years earlier. What a change in the years of Prince of Wales 
     
     College. Gone were the shiny pipes in the lab. The new 
     
     building of the college had opened at Christmas during 
     
     my second year (1932-33). I did not know at the time what 
     
     I was taking on. I was married, living in two rented rooms 
     
     on Hillsborough Street with a very young child, on the 
     
     large sum of $92.00 a month, from which I had to provide 
     
     in addition to rent, my books, clothes, and food. 
     
    

    
     When I arrived, I can still recall the first day in 
     
     the locker room, when John Riley from Belle River said, 
     
     ”This is the man we have to watch to get ahead of us." 
     
    

    
     My question on entering was, “Am I going to pass fourth 
     
     year?” From the provincial Journal, I got this information 
     
    

    
     - there were 629 students attending Prince of Wales college, 
     
     1947 - 1948, 21 less than the previous year (possibly the 
     
     second largest number ever attending Prince of Wales 
     
     College) - of that class there were 58 veterans. The total 
     
     number, according to classes, was 55 in fourth year, 100 in 
     
     third, 150 in second year and 181 in first year; the rest were 
     
     made up of Teacher Training and Commercial 
     
    
   
   
    
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